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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The result of losing a life in this series is that your monster demutates back into their original human form and discovers that MagicPants is averted, leaving them butt-naked in the middle of a partially destroyed city block. (Except in the console versions of ''World Tour'' and ''Universal Tour'', where they at least gain underwear) They quickly [[HandOrObjectUnderwear cover their privates with their hands]] and begin sidling offscreen.

* {{Kaiju}}: An American example.

''Rampage'' is a series of American {{Kaiju}} video games, starting with the 1986 arcade game by Creator/MidwayGames. The games put you in the shoes of a giant monster, where you are tasked in each level to destroy buildings, eat people, fight the military and generally wreck havoc wherever you go.

* EvilerThanThou: You pull this off. Scumlags is EvilInc and your actions wipe most of them from the face of the planet. ''Universal Tour'' sees Earth [[AlienInvasion invaded by aliens]]. Not only do the monsters repel the invaders, they attack the aliens' home planet and level it.

* IncompetenceInc: Scumlabs managed to turn a trio of humans into giant monsters who ravaged the planet. Then in ''Universal Tour'' they somehow managed to create '''another''' trio of monsters who broke out the previous three.

* HelicopterFlyswatter
* HotScientist: Dr. Betty Veronica. And how!

The original game presents a simple premise that carries on for the rest of the series. You choose to play as three simultaneous characters George (a Film/KingKong-[[KingKongCopy like]] {{Expy}}), Lizzy (a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} {{Expy}}), or Ralph ([[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent a giant werewolf]]), [[WasOnceAMan humans mutated into giant monsters]] after exposure to radiation from the nefarious SCUM Labs. The goal of each level is to destroy each building in the given city before time runs out. Along with that, you are able to eat helpless civilians as well as destroy helicopters, tanks, cars, boats and trains. The game runs on a cycle, as when you reach past level 768 (Plano, Illinois), you return to level one [[AliensInCardiff (Peoria, Illinois)]].

* KentBrockmanNews: Rampage 2 and 3 began with newscasts by WBC, and succeeded in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBfhTnR2EPs being]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAYLfa0EXI8 hilarious]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In ''World Tour'', when the monsters revert back into humans, they stand up naked for about a second before [[NakedFreakOut realizing this and covering up]]. The sprites are small, but if you take a close look, you can see their private parts before they cover themselves.
** From the same game, some levels will have what looks like [[MaleFrontalNudity flashers]] in trench coats, seen flashing next to beautiful looking women.

* HotterAndSexier: ''World Tour'' is this [[DownplayedTrope by a little bit]] from the original game, having the aforementioned Dr. Betty Veronica and a slightly-longer NakedFreakout animation that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar briefly shows the demutated monsters' tiny, low-resolution naughty bits]] in the arcade, UsefulNotes/PlayStation, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

* HotterAndSexier: ''World Tour'' is this [[DownplayedTrope by a little bit]] from the original game, having the aforementioned Dr. Betty Veronica and a slightly-longer NakedFreakout animation that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar briefly shows the demutated monsters' tiny, low-resolution naughty bits]] in the arcade, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn versions of the game.

** Dr. [[BettyAndVeronica Betty Veronica]]. Having them both as one would solve [[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie's]] dilemma.

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: …However, sometimes your attempts to eat some poor bastard just trying to take a bath (or at least raiding his fridge) are met with your monster eating [[ShockAndAwe a toaster]] or a jug of poison instead. Not to mention the fact that eating clergymen results in your monster getting [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]][[note]]Kicking them so they go splat on the ground is completely fine, though[[\note]].

The original game presents a simple premise that carries on for the rest of the series. You choose to play as three simultaneous characters George (a Film/KingKong-[[KingKongCopy like]] {{Expy}}), Lizzy (a Franchise/{{Godzilla}} {{Expy}}), or Ralph ([[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent a giant werewolf]]), [[WasOnceAMan humans mutated into giant monsters]] after exposure to radiation from the nefarious SCUM Labs. The goal of each level is to destroy each building in the given city before time runs out. Along with that, you are able to eat helpless civilians as well as destroy helicopters, tanks, cars, boats and trains. The game runs on a cycle, as when you reach past level 768 (Plano, Illinois), you return to level one [[AliensInCardiff (Peoria, Illinois)]].

* AdaptedOut: Ralph is absent from the NES port of the original game.

** This is Averted in World Tour: after ridding the world of Eustace DeMonic on the moon, the monsters celebrate but are finally found by Dr. Betty Veronica who shoots them with a laser she thinks will destroy them…[[HereWeGoAgain only to find out it only shrank the monsters and they have now hijacked her spaceship]].

** [[WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog Ralph the Wolf]],

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Lizzie in the original arcade and, in terms of selectable characters, in ''World Tour'' as well. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Averted]] [[IncrediblyLamePun monsterously]] in ''Total Destruction''.

* TimeLimit: There is a finite amount of time to complete each stage before the city is wiped out in an air raid.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Every monster has one. For George, Lizzie and Ralph, it's bananas, eggs and steak, respectively.

** Possibly the point of these games. First off, you may get points by snacking on civilians and soldiers. But there's also the fact that, in ''World Tour'', there are elders, entire families (including kids) and ''wheelchair-bound people'' among the victims!!!

* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: …However, sometimes your attempts to eat some poor bastard just trying to take a bath (or at least raiding his fridge) are met with your monster eating [[ShockAndAwe a toaster]] or a jug of poison instead. Not to mention the fact that eating clergymen results in your monster getting [[BoltOfDivineRetribution struck by lightning]].

* TheWormThatWalks: Squirmy in ''Total Destruction'' is made out of worms. [[FridgeLogic Despite being the mutated form of just one human.]]

* WrapAround: In the original game.

* {{Notzilla}}: Lizzie, a woman who has mutated into a giant Godzilla-esque lizard monster.

* Skewed Priorities: In the Atari Lynx port of the original, sometimes the between-level newspapers will say an ex-mutant was arrested…[[NakedPeopleAreFunny for streaking]]. It's implied this was right after they finished causing millions of dollars in property damage and eating numerous people.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the Atari Lynx port of the original, sometimes the between-level newspapers will say an ex-mutant was arrested…[[NakedPeopleAreFunny for streaking]]. It's implied this was right after they finished causing millions of dollars in property damage and eating numerous people.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the Atari Lynx port of the original, sometimes the between-level newspapers will say an ex-mutant was arrested…[[NakedPeopleAreFunny for streaking]]. It's implied this was right after causing millions of dollars in property damage and eating numerous people.

** The entire board of executives of Scumlabs in ''Total Destruction'', they aren’t as sinister as Eustace but they are similarly greedy and callous.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: In most non-arcade versions of the original game and ''World Tour'', whenever you get a game over, you can just press a button to monster up again and leap right back into action almost immediately. Running out of lives in ''Total Destruction'' is only slightly more penalizing, forcing you to start over on the current city block.

* SamusIsAGirl: It's a surprise for some players that Lizzie and Ruby female, mostly due to the monsters all having relatively masculine designs and gruff voices. Less so the case in ''Total Destruction'', where the monsters are much more animalistic, and averted altogether in the original, where each monster's identity is shown from the very beginning.

* SamusIsAGirl: It's a surprise for some players that Lizzie is female. Mostly due to the monsters all having relatively masculine designs and gruff voices.